After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Hunter von Leer
- Burt
- (as Hunter Von Leer)
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- TriviaAmy Robinson's debut.
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Jim Douglas: I just don't get it. Here we have a chance to have something we've always wanted and you behave as if someone was playing a dirty trick on you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 25th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1973)
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Forty year-old working woman, happy in her marriage and excited by her job as assistant manager at the local opera house, finds out she's pregnant for the first time. Cloris Leachman won an Emmy for her solid work in this sympathetic TV-made drama, one that strives to teach us something while stirring our maternal or paternal sides. Both Cloris' best friend and her elderly mother try talking her out of having the child--seemingly just so writers Peggy Chantler Dick and Jerome Kass can bring up the abortion issue--while husband Martin Balsam vacillates between nervous anticipation and fear. The obligatory scenes are trotted out: the natural childbirth class (complete with labor film), the friendly young woman whose infant is stillborn, the office baby shower, etc. Leachman frets, beams, cries, giggles and, most amusingly, worries about her toenails when she goes into labor. The picture isn't much, with all that angst obliterated by the upbeat slide-show finale, but it's well-enough done for '70s television.
- moonspinner55
- May 27, 2010
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